Plant for the manufacture of machinery and other apparatus



WILLIAM HENRY MORGAN-or ALLIANCE, OHIO, AssIGNoR To 'rHEIvIoItqAN ENGL' NEERING COMPANY,

AIENI orrics.

Ol`l ALLIANCE, OHIO.

PLANT FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF MACHINERY AND OTHER APPARATUS.

To all whom t may concern.'

Beit known that I, WILLIAM H. MORGAN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Alliance, in the county of Stark and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Plants for the Manu-l facture of Machinery and Other Apparatus; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to an improvement in plant for the manufacture of machinery and other apparatus and is a division of application Serial Number 304,961 filed by'me June 17th, 1919. which has matured into Patent Number 1,333,992, Mar. 16, 1920.

The object of the inventionis to provide 4an arrangement whereby the *handling of raw material and work in course of construction and the completed work are reduced to a minimum and carried on without interfering with other work under construction in the same plant, and it consists in the combination and arrangement of parts as will be more fully explained and pointed out in the claim.

The accompanying drawing is a view in plan of my improved plant.

1 and 2 represent the main or assembling shops located at right angles to each other and connected at one end. The space intermediate the two side or erecting shopsvl and 2 is housed over forming one structure in the shape of a right angle triangle, and the space intermediate the two shops is divided into shops or bays 3 extending *from one side shop to the other and in open Acommunication at their ends with both.

The bays 3 are equipped with machines for the manufacture of the parts of the work under construction and with overhead cranes 3a for moving the material and work from a surface car to a machine in the bay or vice versa. or to another machine.. in the saine bay. I prefer to locate thefmzjlchines for light work intermediate two*v bays equipped with machines for heavy work.

One or more surface tracks 4 leading from a track outside of the shops, pass transversel through the bays, and also through one o the assembling shops in the event the rail road should be on that sideof the strucJ Specification of Letters Patent. ptnted June 27, 1922..

Original application filed June 17,1919, Serial No. 304,961. Divided and thisV 13, 1919. Serial No. 817,210.

application filed August ture, for delivering the raw material, castings, or other parts of the work, to the parsufliciently far for a crane 3a in the bay to cover the car for loading the work thereon. After the parts have been finished in the bays they are transported by cranes and cars into one of the erecting shops at the end of the bay where the parts are assembled after 'which they are loaded onto surface cars which are moved out onto the tracks in the yard ready for transportation to its destination. y

By locating' the tracks 5 in the erecting shops adjacent the inner side walls of the latter. clear floor space at the outer sides of the tracks is left for erecting purposes, and by locating the bays obliquely to the erecting shops, the spur tracks inthe bays can bles which are necessary in shops which are l at right angles to each other.

`With this arrangement ample space is provided within the verteX or angle at the juncture of the two erecting shops, for the power plant 6a for supplying motive power to all machines and apparatus in the erect ing shops and bays.

Having fully described my invention whatV I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters-Patent, is

In a machine shop plant an erecting shop L-shape in plan and shops or bays located within the triangular space between the two members of the erecting shop and oblique to and communicating with both.

In testimony whereof, I have signed this specification in the presence of a subscribing witness.

WILLIAM HENRY MORGAN.

, Witness:

N.' CA FETTERS; 

